00:00:00here’s a third fantastic theme that has
00:00:03influenced some of the most beautiful
00:00:04and profound protest songs of all time
00:00:07and that is the killing of a peaceful
00:00:09protester think Bloody Sunday think Kent
00:00:12State these are just these are just
00:00:14perfect examples that have become really
00:00:16really publicized over the years and
00:00:19essentially what i’m talking about is
00:00:21when people very often students go in
00:00:24and they’re protesting a fantastic
00:00:27example of this is Kent State University
00:00:29for example where there was a peaceful
00:00:31protest going on to demonstrate against
00:00:34the Vietnam War but it was it was a
00:00:35protest that was really a student-based
00:00:37protest and these students at Kent State
00:00:39University went out and they were
00:00:40peacefully protesting and the police
00:00:42came in to break it up and at the end of
00:00:45the day there were 44 people killed nine
00:00:48injured one of them one of them was
00:00:51confront was paralyzed and and it was
00:00:54just a horrible horrible display that
00:00:57really shocked and offended a lot of
00:01:00people and and a ton of artists over the
00:01:02years have had looked back at that one
00:01:05particular instance and said whoa there
00:01:06was something wrong there the most
00:01:08quintessential song ever written about
00:01:09it is is the cs my song crosby Stills
00:01:12Nash and young song Ohio and let me
00:01:15quote from that song I think it may say
00:01:17it better than I could ever than I could
00:01:18ever they say got to get down to it
00:01:21soldiers are cutting us down you should
00:01:22have been done long ago what if you knew
00:01:24her and found her dead on the ground how
00:01:26can you run when you know I just thought
00:01:28that was so interesting and so fantastic
00:01:30and so indicative of what these people
00:01:31were trying to do and what they were
00:01:32trying to say a guy like me Leon for
00:01:34example isn’t out there telling you to
00:01:36go pick up a gun he’s just asking you to
00:01:38open your eyes into
00:01:39to to look around what’s going on in the
00:01:41world Neil Young actually a fun fact was
00:01:43also a member of another band it was
00:01:47really known for its peaceful protest
00:01:49songs which is Buffalo Springfield
00:01:51Buffalo Springfield are the ones who who
00:01:53asked us to stop and look around and
00:01:55it’s also interesting because Neil Young
00:01:58was in Buffalo Springfield with Stephen
00:02:00Stills who later became a member of
00:02:02causes too much I’d like to read you a
00:02:05quote from David Crosby it was given a
00:02:072000 interview and I thought it was
00:02:09great and I thought it was really
00:02:11indicative of what these artists were
00:02:12trying to do so David Crosby says you
00:02:15know our main job is to entertain but
00:02:16there’s also the part of us to be the
00:02:18town crier to be the troubadour the guy
00:02:20that says 12 o’clock all’s well 1130 and
00:02:23not so darn good and Nash felt strongly
00:02:26that it was a travesty of American
00:02:28justice and it was it was a complete
00:02:30travesty you can’t chain a man to a
00:02:31chair and gag him and say that you’re
00:02:33having a free trial it just doesn’t work
00:02:34that way I just thought that was amazing
00:02:36and I thought that really kind of was
00:02:38indicative of what crosby Stills Nash
00:02:40and young we’re trying to do they were
00:02:42just essentially saying hey everybody
00:02:44wake up this is what’s going on in our
00:02:46world this is what’s going on in society
00:02:47it’s not right and we really need to
00:02:51take a look at it
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